Greater New Orleans

Appeal denied in 2007 Lafourche Parish child deaths

The Louisiana Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of a Mathews woman serving two life sentences for the 2009 stabbing deaths of her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. Attorneys for 44-year-old Amy Hebert had argued that the evidence presented during the trial was insufficient to convict Hebert because defense witnesses established that she was insane at the time of the killings.